Quotes About Selflessness

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" — Edward Cullen

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Buy what you love. Love those who can't be bought. Take in all the day has to offer. Give it all away.

You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give.

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

To a friend you give yourself away, and you get yourself back bigger and stronger.

The highest distinction is service to others.

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

You can't ask people to give up personal, tangible comforts for some ethereal ideal. That's why communism failed. That's why all those primitive, hippie, "back to the land" communes failed. Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.